SANTA ANA, Calif. – Law enforcement is seeking potential additional victims of a doctor who is charged with sending sexually motivated messages to cheerleaders at a high school where he served as a volunteer.

Ranjeet Reedy Paladugu, an Irvine resident and former executive at the Newport Beach-headquartered cosmetics company Urban Decay, pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling nearly $600,000 from his employer and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail, according to the O.C. Register.

Paladugu apparently paid back the money before the plea when he transferred $598,500 back to Urban Decay. He had originally taken transferred that money to a fictitious company he had created, according to the O.C.D.A. Continue reading→

Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert and Sheriff Scott Jones announced that Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, a former police officer in the Sacramento area, was arrested as the prime suspect in the East Area Rapist/Original Nightstalker/Golden State Killer case.

DeAngelo is accused of having committed at least 12 killings and perhaps 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s, according to KTLA. The atrocities included allegedly killing two victims in Irvine. Manuela Whitthuhn was killed in Irvine in 1981. Five years later in 1986, Janelle Cruz was beaten to death in her parent’s home, in Irvine. Continue reading→

Around 10 p.m., an Anaheim Police Department helicopter was following a vehicle that was driving erratically and in excess of 100 miles per hour on I-405. The helicopter requested units to respond. Prior to those units arriving, the vehicle crashed on I-405 at Jamboree, near the Von Karman overpass. The suspect fled the vehicle and was located shortly thereafter in the area of Von Karman and Quartz. Continue reading→

Willy San, a 26-year-old Long Beach man, pleaded guilty on Thursday and was immediately sentenced to 14 years in prison for 14 burglaries and two attempted break-ins from late April through May 2016 in Irvine’s Woodbury neighborhood, according to the O.C. Register.

San’s first burglary that he was charged with was committed on April 28, 2016, and the final break-in was on May 27, 2016. San also accepted sentencing enhancements for aggravated white-collar crime that ranged between $100,000 to $500,000. Continue reading→